Intent statement
All young people develop a love of language learning.
Head of Department
Ms Digiorgio
Curriculum Principles
Implementation Key Principles:
- Knowledge and skills have been mapped out, going backwards, starting from A-Level and going back to A1 assessment in Y7
- Pair talk is practiced in all lessons, starting from Y7
- Weekly vocab tests help promote resilience in students
- Curriculum is adapted to support SEND students
- Content is rich, relevant and reflective of the diverse world in which we live
- Learning is sequenced to enable young people to develop knowledge and skills
- Literacy is explicitly delivered across the curriculum
- Learning is adapted to support the specific needs of individuals
- A sustainable approach is supported through the curriculum
- Resilience is promoted for students by frequent (low stakes) assessment to inform teaching
In classrooms, this may look like:
- Students talking in the target language
- Whole class reading work to support literacy and improve pronunciation
- Reading gap fill activities are the pedagogical decision taken to support targeted SEN students
- Carefully planned shared schema, developed by experts and tailored by teachers to meet the needs of teaching groups
- DO NOW tasks drawing on prior learning
- Signature strategies used for Checking Understanding, such as Show Call, Show Me, Intentional Monitoring
- Shared literacy and reading strategies in place, such as Inside Outside Beyond and whole class reading work
- Precise pedagogical decisions made for students with additional needs (EHCP, SEND K, PSP, Behavioural, PA) including additional adults, alternative resources or outcomes, seating arrangements, precise deployment of signature strategies
- Teaching which alters according to student understanding demonstrated both from assessment points and within lessons
In work produced, this may look like:
- Y10 and Y11 group engaged in weekly/daily exam-style content
- Regular feedback, which addresses knowledge or skills gaps
- Opportunities for conscious practise by students (reteach episodes, ‘fix-it’ sessions, revision)
- Opportunities for self and peer assessment, engaging with success criteria
- As relevant to Key Stage, opportunities to engage with exam-style content
- Home learning will promote digital literacy in line with school strategy
For students, this experience may include:
- Opportunities to experience the cultural side of the language; trips abroad; taster lessons with food specialties of the language studied.
- Consistent staffing in lessons with teachers who know them and similar learning journeys across year groups
- Regular opportunities to engage with feedback on progress (parents’ evenings, progress grades, reports, assessment feedback, in-class feedback, marking)
- A clear sense of the curriculum journey leading to CEIAG – how can you pursue this field of study? What might it lead you to?
- Where students are taught by professionals at the start of their career, they can expect additional adults in classes supporting through a range of strategies (live coaching, learning walks, observations, team teaching)
Impact Key Principles
In evaluating the impact of our curriculum, we will consider:
- Outcomes data, such as A level and BTEC Results, GCSE results, Additional qualifications (sports leaders, community languages, Entry level qualifications) and the performance of vulnerable groups within that data
- Destinations data at common points of transition from the school (Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5)
- Internal and external Quality Assurance processes (Ark review processes, governor accountability processes, internal audit processes, Ofsted)
- The development of professionals into experts in their field through their work in supporting colleagues, supporting other schools, developing curriculum resource, becoming examiners etc.
Year 7
Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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Theme 1 - Who am I |
Theme 1 - Free Time |
Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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Theme 3 - School |
Theme 1 - Family and friend |
Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Theme 2 - My city |
Revision |
Year 8
Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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Theme 2 - My holidays |
Theme 1 - Who am I |
Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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Theme 1 - Food and Drinks |
Theme 1 - Arranging to out with friends |
Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Theme 2 - Holidays |
Revision |
Year 9
Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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Theme 2 - Holidays |
Theme 2 Holidays |
Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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Theme 3 - School |
Theme 3 - School |
Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Theme 1 - Identity and Culture |
Revision |
Year 10
Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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Theme 4 - Future aspirations, Study and Work |
Theme 4 - Future aspirations, Study and Work |
Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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Paper 2: Speaking exam, an introduction and practice |
Theme 1 - Identity and Culture(Interests and Influences: free time activities, TV programmes and films, sports) |
Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Theme 1 - Identity and Culture |
Paper 1: Listening exam, an introduction and practice Paper 3: Reading exam, an introduction and practice Paper 4: Writing exam, an introduction and practice |
Year 11
Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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Theme 5 - International and Global Dimensio |
Theme 5 - International and Global Dimension |
Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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Theme 1 - Identity and Culture |
Theme 1 - Identity and Culture |
Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Paper 1: Listening exam practice; |
Paper 1: Listening exam practice; |